Articles with the Tag: Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes
POLSON — Groundbreaking has been a long time coming for Lake House, an eight-bed mental health crisis care facility, but Western Montana Mental Health Center staffers were joined by well-wishers at a groundbreaking on May 20. “We’re hoping for the facility to be open in December or Janua...
Birds of a feather flock together and in Mission Valley, people flock to their feathered friends. The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes Natural Resources Department Wildlife Program hosted its third annual Community Bird Day on May 8, and people came out in droves to find out more about the f...
MISSOULA — Private health care insurance is a new option for many Native Americans as part of the Affordable Care Act. However, most Indian people are not aware of the new health care law and they don’t understand “insurance speak.” ACA has created unique opportunities for tribal memb...
ARLEE – Methamphetamine contamination closed the Salish and Kootenai Tribal Senior Citizens Center a few weeks ago, and when the elders gathered on Thursday in a new temporary location for their weekly lunch to discuss the problem — the entire tribal council was on hand to hear concerns. &ldqu...
POLSON — The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services program, in collaboration with the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes and Montana State University Extension-Lake County are hosting a one-day, non-lethal predator damage management workshop on Thursday, May 21, at KwaTaqNuk Res...
FLATHEAD LAKE — Up to $225,000 in cash and prizes will be awarded on Sunday, May 17 at the conclusion of the 2015 Spring Fishing Event on Flathead Lake. Mack Days are sponsored by the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes and are used as a tool to reduce numbers of non-native lake trout in Flathead L...
RONAN – Community leaders, school officials, and high school seniors spent April 30 teaching K. William Harvey Elementary School students that smart choices, diligence and high school graduation are building blocks to a prosperous future. Festivities included a Graduation Matters ceremony and girls car...
DIXON — A half-dozen professionally trained search and rescue teams were searching near North Valley Creek Road on Wednesday morning for a man who went missing over the weekend. Troy Akers, 20, was traveling from Missoula with three others on Sunday night when the vehicle became stranded near D...
ST. IGNATIUS — Governor Steve Bullock signed a bill March 24 that gives final state approval for the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes Water Compact, but the battle over the document continued as a handful of Flathead Joint Board of Control Irrigation Commissioners filed a lawsuit saying the meth...
PABLO – Many furred and scaled beasts roam the Flathead Reservation, but the valley floor is well-known to outsiders for hosting an abundance of feathered flyers that typically places the destination among the top bird watching habitat in Montana. The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes ha...
